by Julia Nuttall-Smith | Aug 16, 2017
To be a part of this groundbreaking humanitarian organization that is their everything is an incredible opportunity.
by Julia Nuttall-Smith | Aug 14, 2017
Hi, my name is Julia and I have had the amazing opportunity to intern for iACT the past two summers. I live in Hermosa Beach, California, and will be a senior at Mira Costa High School this fall. My family and I first became involved with iACT in 2011. My mom, Alex...
by Liam Cook | Jul 20, 2017
You always hear people talking about trips that change their lives. To me, I never really understood what a “life-changing” trip would entail, not until I embarked to Sweden with the all-refugee Darfur United Men’s Team. If I am going to be completely honest, I...
by Mark Hodson | Jul 19, 2017
To say the team has improved on the field is maybe one of the greater underestimations I may have made in my almost-40 years on this planet. The football is unrecognizable from the hurried chatter and enthusiasm that kicked up the unbreathable dirt in the blazing heat...
by Katie-Jay | Jul 16, 2017
It cannot be a more stark difference. The football that Darfur United has played in the last six days at training camp in Östersund, Sweden; and the first days of tryouts back in refugee camp Djabal in eastern Chad in 2012. Through it all, Coach Mark Hodson has...
by Alex Nuttall-Smith | Jul 9, 2017
Quotation marks can signal that someone is speaking, that something is a title, or that a word or phrase is being used in a special way. There was certainly something special about “the Hospital.” That’s what the players of Darfur United called my hotel room: “the...